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Lot 48 |THE PROCEEDS OF THE FOLLOWING LOT WILL GO TO HADASSAH, THE SARAH WETSMAN HOSPITAL TOWER, JERUSALEM
Helen Layfield Bradley (1900-1979)
On Our Way Home
Closed21 March 2013
Price Realised
GBP 27,500
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Helen Layfield Bradley (1900-1979)
On Our Way Home
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower left); inscribed 'On our way home from visiting/Great Aunt Jane who lived up Springhead/we always passed The Chemist Shop,/at County End so that Aunt Frances/could stop and have a word with James/Alfred, the nice young son of the owner./I heard mother say to Aunt Mary/that she was sure they were in love with/one another, but his mother said that/he wasnt [sic] to dream of marrying, at least/not whilst she was alive, so poor James/Alfred couldnt [sic] call at Grandma's and/ask aunt Frances to walk out with/him, so George and I used to run to his/shop with little notes which he took round/the back. Then he would give me one to take/back to aunt Frances and along with the note/a big lump of sugar candy, and the year was /1907.' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.3 cm.)
On Our Way Home
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower left); inscribed 'On our way home from visiting/Great Aunt Jane who lived up Springhead/we always passed The Chemist Shop,/at County End so that Aunt Frances/could stop and have a word with James/Alfred, the nice young son of the owner./I heard mother say to Aunt Mary/that she was sure they were in love with/one another, but his mother said that/he wasnt [sic] to dream of marrying, at least/not whilst she was alive, so poor James/Alfred couldnt [sic] call at Grandma's and/ask aunt Frances to walk out with/him, so George and I used to run to his/shop with little notes which he took round/the back. Then he would give me one to take/back to aunt Frances and along with the note/a big lump of sugar candy, and the year was /1907.' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.3 cm.)
Helen Layfield Bradley (1900-1979)
On Our Way Home
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower left); inscribed 'On our way home from visiting/Great Aunt Jane who lived up Springhead/we always passed The Chemist Shop,/at County End so that Aunt Frances/could stop and have a word with James/Alfred, the nice young son of the owner./I heard mother say to Aunt Mary/that she was sure they were in love with/one another, but his mother said that/he wasnt [sic] to dream of marrying, at least/not whilst she was alive, so poor James/Alfred couldnt [sic] call at Grandma's and/ask aunt Frances to walk out with/him, so George and I used to run to his/shop with little notes which he took round/the back. Then he would give me one to take/back to aunt Frances and along with the note/a big lump of sugar candy, and the year was /1907.' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.3 cm.)
On Our Way Home
signed 'HELEN BRADLEY' and with a fly (lower left); inscribed 'On our way home from visiting/Great Aunt Jane who lived up Springhead/we always passed The Chemist Shop,/at County End so that Aunt Frances/could stop and have a word with James/Alfred, the nice young son of the owner./I heard mother say to Aunt Mary/that she was sure they were in love with/one another, but his mother said that/he wasnt [sic] to dream of marrying, at least/not whilst she was alive, so poor James/Alfred couldnt [sic] call at Grandma's and/ask aunt Frances to walk out with/him, so George and I used to run to his/shop with little notes which he took round/the back. Then he would give me one to take/back to aunt Frances and along with the note/a big lump of sugar candy, and the year was /1907.' (on a label attached to the reverse)
oil on canvas-board
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.3 cm.)
with W. H. Patterson, London.
London, W.H. Patterson, Helen Bradley M.B.E., Commemorative Exhibition, 26th July to 9th August 2000, no. 12.
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